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10 November
1:17 pm

Our broken permitting system has held back cleaner, cheaper energy, driven up costs, delayed good paying jobs.

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Chuck Schumer, at Senate Democratic Leadership Press Conference

1:17 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific causal assertion that the permitting system has caused higher energy costs and job delays — a verifiable policy claim about regulatory outcomes.
What we foundThe claim that the permitting system has held back cleaner energy, driven up costs, and delayed jobs is widely and consistently reported across industry surveys, bipartisan policy organizations, and trade groups, though some progressive analysts dispute whether permitting is the primary driver.
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